Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter rather than mind. For eight years he studied barnacles: his "patient dissection of thousands of smelly little sea animals" so impressed his children that they assumed that everyone in the world was similarly occupied. "Then where does he do his barnacles?" asked a little Darwin about a neighbor...
Astronomers are full of facts about far-distant stars, but they know almost nothing about Venus, the earth's nearest (26 million miles) planetary neighbor. Its size, density and period of rotation are all uncertain, and no one has glimpsed its surface, which is always covered with clouds as opaque as marshmallows. In the latest Astrophysical Journal, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory tells how he learned at least a few facts about cloud-wrapped Venus...
Foreign private capital cannot be driven. It must be attracted. Real cooperation in this hemisphere can result only from adherence to consistent economic programs honorably and continuously observed . . . The U.S. will seek to be more than a good neighbor. It will be a good partner...
...kind of Republicanism "progressive moderate." But now he thought that "dynamic conservatism" was the best term: "We are not antediluvian, nor are we trying to be men from Mars." Bedrock Conclusions. When he had finished, the national committeemen pounded the tables in delight. Whispered one committeeman to his neighbor: "Why. that's the first real honest-to-goodness Republican political speech I've heard him make." But the committeemen hadn't heard anything yet: Ike's speech was merely the first public outcropping of some bedrock conclusions that he has reached about politics. Items...
...plant superintendent with a degree in physical education felt that he once had no interest in life except his job. Now he is a company representative to the meetings of Philadelphia's World Affairs Council, has revived his old interest in music, has even made friends with his neighbor, an English professor from Temple University. "I used to think," says he, "that we businessmen were on one side-the really important one-and there on the other side were the intellectuals like the professor. Now, you should hear the talks we have in my rumpus room...